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“ordinary” buildings as the general backgroundof the new political scenery. Mussolini’sprojects were more clearly separated – thecentre was the ground of the newmonumentality while the new, modernneighbourhoods, without lacking their ownmonumental places, were more peripheral. InRomanian and Korean case we can witness atime-splitting between monumental and regularbuildings. While Bucharest was submitted firstto a social revision as huge new residentialassemblies were built and while the outmostexpression of the communist era was also itslast project, in Korean case the timeline wasinversed. The social projects were started justafter the accomplishment of the new “sacredplaces” of the city.CONCLUSIONSBucharest case is neither new and neitherunique if we look at the destructions that itsuffered. On another hand some features ofthese destructions are strikingly different.On one hand is the further continuation ofdemolishing after the fall of the communistregime. If we could expect a revalorisation ofthe old city after 1990, this change ofperspective never came. The only noticeableact of promoting the past is the skin-deeprefurbish of the Lipscani area. But it was donejust in order to transform it in a tourists-trap, ahistorical Disneyland out-door mall that is notappealing neither to locals nor to foreigners.On another hand, even if we somehow acceptnow the House of the People, or at least theidea that it can’t be demolishes, but what canstrike one visiting the city is the incapacity ofreweaving it, of occupying and transform itsscars. It is like, behind the huge boulevards’facades, the time stopped. We are neither ableto recover the past of the city, as the harm doneis way too big, neither to integrate its presentand to recover the urban space.Though the city fascinated due to its particularculture, traditions and heritage, the modernproject (although heavily imposed by thecommunist era and strongly refused at thattime) still haunts Bucharest. It seems that weare not able to learn neither form our own, pastmistakes nor form the others’.After 20 years of democracy we still wanderwhat to do about the city, still expect for one’salone idea instead to try, as Germans did for anexample, to take the space in our own hands.The political projects are clearly orientedtowards further destructions and while we arefighting to save what is still standing we forgetabout our scares. As a result we risk facing, insome time, a totally mutilated city that we areno more able to cope with. Or, as it started tohappen, if we will let it go, the nature willsucceed to bring the life back in the forgottenfractured spaces. But nature is so “unmodern”...REFERENCESBisky J., 2006. Berlin-a profile, ed. Berlinei Zeitung,Berlin.De Certeau M., 1990. L’invention du quotidien, Vol.1.Arts de faire, Gallimard, Paris.Choay F., 2011, Pentru o antropologie a spaiului, ed.Biblioteca Urbanismul, Bucharest.Ciupitu O., 2006. Arhitectura veche din Beijing I,Curierul Romanesc.Goldhoorn B., 2002. Project Russia – architecture aftercommunism, ed. A-fond Publishers, Amsterdam.Harhoiu D., 1997. Bucureti, un ora între Orient iOccident, ed. Simetria, Bucharest.Jackson J.B., 1984. Discovering the VernacularLandscape, Yale University Press, New Haven.Joinau B., 2012. La Flèche et le Soleil. Topomythanalysede Pyongyang, Croisements 2 « Villeréelle, ville rêvée », Paris : Atelier des Cahiers p. 66-95.Klein N., 2007. The Shock Doctrine. The Rise ofDisaster Capitalism, Penguin Group, London, p. 3.Kostof S., 2005. The City Assembled, Thames & Hudson,New York.Meuser P, 2012. Architectural and Cultural Guide:Pyongyang, DOM Publishers, Berlin.Pandele A., 2009. Casa Poporului- Un sfrit înmarmur, ed. Compania, Bucharest.Quilici V., 1976. Cita russa e citta sovietica, GabrieleMazzorra editore, Milano.Rau R.A., 2012. Negotiating the Civic Center.Architects and Politicians in 20th Century Romania,Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of therequirements for the for the title of Doctor inEngineering at the Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenArenberg Doctoral School.Sfinescu C., 1932. Estetica Bucuretiului, (inUrbanismul 9-12/1932), Institutul de Arte GraficeBucovina, Bucharest.Vasilescu S., 2011. Arhitectura Italiei fasciste, ed.Arhitext Design, Bucharest.Willoughby R., 2008. North Korea 2 nd Bradt travelguide, The Globe Pequot Press Inc. Guilford,Connecticut.362